454 Pa. Super. 339 - Commonwealth v. Bango’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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1. “The purpose of permitting the jury access to the transcripts was to make their deliberations more informed. With appropriate cautionary instructions, the jury’s access to the spoken as well as the written word provided important guidance. We point out that the trial is the forum for finding truth. The jury’s deliberations represent the process by which the fact finders establish what they believe to be true. For policy reasons, where materials inform a jury and aid it in the difficult task of determining facts, the jury should be permitted, to study those materials during its deliberations. In the instant case armed with proper cautionary instructions relating to the requirement that the tapes rather than the transcripts are to be considered valid, the jury could only benefit by the use of the transcripts as an aid in its assessment of the tapes. Because we find that access to the transcripts during deliberations was not [sic] court did not abuse its discretion in permitting such access.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Strong